Orlando J. Pérez

Latin American democracy : emerging reality or endangered species?

1. Introduction, Richard L. Millett 2. Democratic Consolidation in Latin America? Jennifer Holmes 3. Measuring Democratic Political Culture in Latin America Orlando Perez 4. Latin American Democracy: How is it Viewed From the North? Ambler Moss 5. Latin American Democracy: The View from the South Francisco Rojas Aravena Part 2: The Status of Institutions 6. The Rule of Law in Latin America Luz E. Nagle 7. Executive-Legislative Relations and Democracy in Latin America Peter Siavelis 8. Feminism in Latin America: Equity, Justice, and Survival Sheila Amin Gutierrez de Pineres 9. New Politics, New Parties? Roberto Espindola 10. The State, the Military and the Citizen Rut Diamint and Laura Tedesco 11. Democratization, Globalization, and Social Change: An Evolving Human Rights Chip Pitts and Jorge Daniel Taillant 12. Latin American Democracy and the Media Don Bohning 13. Indian Nationalism, Democracy and the Future of the Nation-State in Central and South America Martin E. Anderson 14. The Persistent Attraction of Populism in the Andes Julio Carrion 15. Crime and Citizen Security: Democracys Achilles Heel Richard Millett 16. The Left in Government: Deepening or Constraining Democracy in Latin America? Martin Nilsson 17. Democracy and Economic Growth in Latin America Isaac Cohen 18. Is Latin America Condemned by Corruption? Juan F. Facetti 19. The U.S. Role in Democratization: Coping with Episodic Embraces Gene E. Bigler 20. Conclusion Orlando Perez and Jennifer S. Holmes

Drugs and Post-Intervention Political Economy in Haiti and Panama

This chapter examines the political economy dynamics of Haiti and Panama after the 1994 and 1989 interventions, and the role of drug trafficking and money laundering in those dynamics. No other countries in the Caribbean Basin — with the exception of Mexico — have been more closely linked to the United States and have had more impact on US hemispheric policy than Panama and Haiti. The United States has intervened militarily in both countries several times during the twentieth century.’ Moreover, issues such as immigration, drug production and trafficking, and money laundering, so important to US domestic politics, have been at the forefront of US relations with both countries.